Megan Staffel

• Dec-1987
• / General Fiction
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A first novel of uncommon delicacy and sureness, SHE WANTED SOMETHING ELSE is the story of three connected lives and the delicate shifts, hesitations, and redirections that alter, threaten, and renew the characters' relationships over time. Foremost ...

• Aug-1999
• / Literary
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Helene came to the small town of Paris, New York as a child with her younger brother and her mother, Uta. They were refugees from World War II, survivors of Dresden, who left a DP camp to join a distant relative only to find that he'd vanished. The l...

• Mar-2010
• / Literary
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Not since Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid has there been a book which so articulately reveals the complex emotional spectrum of children caught in the adult world. The novella and four stories in Lessons in Another Language give voice t...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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How do we find the courage to change? In The Exit Coach, a collection of six stories and a novella, the characters arrive at an impasse that requires them to step out of the wreckage of their habituated lives. It is the entrance of an unexpected voic...

• Oct-2024
• / General Fiction
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When Rachel and Rubiat meet in art school, they are surprised by a sudden passion. But it is tested, right away, when Rubiat gives in to a reckless, self-destructive impulse that sets him adrift. Rachel has no choice but to resume her studies even th...